To:G. V. PLEKHANOV

Published:First published in 1926 in the collectionThe EmancipationofLabour GroupNo. 4.

      Sent from Munich to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages76b-77a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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Iforgot to ask you to do the following: please Look among your papers
for alettermy wife sent youconcerning the article“The Workers’ Party and the
			   Peasantry”[1](three or four close-written sheets of letter paper, without heading or
signature).

Youhaven’t given your opinion as regards printing it inZarya. I would like to remind you of it, so that you should not
forget to send it to uswithout fail before
leaving[3](or to bring it along).

Pleasewrite when you plan to leave and expect to arrive here.

Bergis said to have scored a success in Paris. But the Union crowd in
Russia have achieved absolutely nothing! This is the very time to crush
them.

Iam writing a
			      pamphlet[2]against them, and I get angrierand angrier as I go on.  The only trouble is that my pamphlet is getting
too fat!

[1]Seepresent edition, Vol. 4, pp. 420–28.—Ed.

[2]SeeWhat Is To Be Done? (present edition, Vol. 5,
pp. 347–529).—Ed.

[3]Areference to G. V. Plekhanov’s trip to Brussels to attend a
conference of the International Socialist Bureau, to which he had been
elected, together with B. N. Krichevsky, at the Paris Congress of the
Second International in 1900. The conference opened on December 30, 1901,
and Plekhanov’s report on its proceedings was published inIskraNo. 15 dated January 15, 1902, under the title, “From Brussels. Letter to
the Editors ofIskra” (see G. V. Plekhanov,Collected
Works, Russian Ed., Vol. 12, 1924, pp. 193–98).